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  • Title: Disposable electrochemical immunosensor by using carbon sphere/gold nanoparticle composites as labels for signal amplification.
    Author: Xu Q, Yan F, Lei J, Leng C, Ju H.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2012 Apr 16; 18(16):4994-8. PubMed ID: 22438025.
    Abstract:
    This work designed a simple, sensitive, and low-cost immunosensor for the detection of protein marker by using a carbon sphere/gold nanoparticle (CNS/AuNP) composite as an electrochemical label. The nanoscale carbon spheres, prepared with a hydrothermal method by using glucose as raw material, were used to load AuNPs for labeling antibody by electrostatic interaction, which provided a feasible pathway for electron transfer due to the remarkable conductivity. The disposable immunosensor was constructed by coating a polyethylene glycol (PEG) film on a screen-printed carbon-working electrode and then immobilizing capture antibody on the film. With a sandwich-type immunoassay format, the analyte and then the CNS/AuNP-labeled antibody were successively bound to the immunosensor. The bound AuNPs were finally electro-oxidized in 0.1  M HCl to produce AuCl(4)(-) for differential pulse voltammetric (DPV) detection. The high-loading capability of AuNPs on CNS for the sandwich-type immunorecognition led to obvious signal amplification. By using human immunoglobulin G (IgG) as model target, the DPV signal of AuNPs after electro-oxidized at optimal potential of +1.40 V for 40 s showed a wide linear dependence on the logarithm of target concentration ranging from 10 pg  mL(-1) to 10 ng  mL(-1). The detection limit was around 9 pg  mL(-1). The immunosensor showed excellent analytical performance with cost effectivity, good fabrication reproducibility, and acceptable precision and accuracy, providing significant potential application in clinical analysis.
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